@kevinbarry.bsky.social
📤 167
📥 101
📝 61
Tyneside Irish | Freelance ecologist | Birder
You can see breeding common redstart in oak woodlands about an hour’s drive north of Tavira, but they’re very much a migrant in the coastal Algarve
add a skeleton here at some point
8 days ago
0
0
0
reposted by
2 months ago
The young swifts started to peer out yesterday so they will probably fledge tomorrow. This video shows the chick on left and adult on right.
#swifts
#apusapus
#birds
loading . . .
0
1
1
Drove around the northern fringes of Doñana for the first time earlier this year- the intensive fruit farming goes on for miles 🥺
add a skeleton here at some point
3 months ago
0
1
0
Little Bittern at São Lourenço lake,
#Algarve
#Portugal
2024
#birds
#birdphotography
#wetlands
3 months ago
1
7
0
reposted by
3 months ago
My local wren paying a visit
#birds
#birdphotography
#wren
1
6
2
reposted by
3 months ago
So lucky to have swifts nesting since 2022. Just one pair but hopefully it's the start of a colony.
#swifts
#apusapus
#nestingswifts
loading . . .
0
4
1
Booted eagle checking me out at Parque Ambiental, Vilamoura
#Portugal
taken last October
#birds
#birdphotography
3 months ago
1
40
3
After 3 sites and over 20km walked, I finally connected with white-rumped swifts, a species that only just makes it into Europe as a breeding bird
#birds
#swifts
#Portugal
4 months ago
0
2
0
Sometimes you go out and have few opportunities for a photo, but have a great day birding- yesterday was one of those days - distant common redstart on lichen covered cork oak, in the hills north of
#Tavira
#Portugal
#birds
#woodland
4 months ago
0
9
0
Hungry mouths to feed! 2 out of a total of 4 young little grebes in this brood. 27 June, São Lourenço lake
#Algarve
#Portugal
#birds
#birdphotography
4 months ago
0
8
1
Iberian magpie - Cyanopica cooki - taken yesterday at Quinta do Lago,
#Algarve
#Portugal
#birds
#birdphotography
4 months ago
0
10
2
reposted by
4 months ago
Managed to video this beautiful hoopoe preening whilst I had lunch. Always the best views when least expected!
#tavira
#algarve
loading . . .
0
10
3
European red-rumped swallow, near Castro Marim
#Portugal
today
#birds
5 months ago
1
10
0
European bee-eater near Castro Marim
#Portugal
today
#birds
#birdphotography
5 months ago
0
10
0
Little grebe, taken back in April at Parque Ambiental, Vilamoura
#Portugal
#birds
#birdphotography
#wetlands
5 months ago
0
18
2
A couple more pics of my favourite part of
#Glasgow
Botanical Gardens- the insectivorous plants of Kibble Palace
#botany
#plants
#iPhone13mini
5 months ago
0
6
0
Black-winged stilt, Castro Marim
#Portugal
13 April 2025
#birds
#birdphotography
#waders
6 months ago
1
26
0
Ferruginous Duck - Parque Ambiental, Vilamoura
#Portugal
11 April
#birds
#wetlands
#birdphotography
6 months ago
0
11
0
Corn bunting- Parque Ambiental, Vilamoura
#Portugal
11 April 2025
#birds
#birdphotography
6 months ago
0
11
0
As a change from birds, here’s another insectivore…pitcher plant (Sarracenia) at Kibble Palace
#Glasgow
Botanical Gardens
6 months ago
0
3
0
White Stork - Dehesa de Abajo
#Andalucia
#birds
#birdphotography
6 months ago
0
20
0
White-headed duck yesterday, Dehesa de Abajo
#Andalucia
#birds
#birdphotography
6 months ago
0
18
1
Western Swamphen - Quinta do Lago
#Portugal
01 Mar 2025
#birds
#birdphotography
#wetlands
7 months ago
1
19
1
Sanderling on the beach today, Aldeia Nova
#Portugal
#birds
#birdphotography
#waders
7 months ago
1
13
0
Semipalmated plover, Kourou, 01 Dec 2024
#Guyane
#waders
#birds
#birdphotography
8 months ago
0
11
0
Yellow-crowned Night Heron, Vieux Port, Cayenne 02 Dec 24
#Guyane
#birds
#birdpgotography
#herons
9 months ago
1
10
0
Tropical Mockingbird-Lac de Bois-Diable
#Guyane
Dec 24
9 months ago
0
7
0
Tropical Kingbird- Lac de Bois-Diable
#Guyane
Dec 24
9 months ago
0
4
0
Wing-barred Seedeater doing what its name suggests - Cacao
#Guyane
Nov 24
#birds
#birdphotography
9 months ago
0
14
0
Immature vultures can be confusing - I settled on Turkey vulture, although adult lesser yellow-headed were also around. Rizières de Mana Nov 24,
#Guyane
#birds
#birdphotography
9 months ago
0
13
0
Chestnut-naped
#antpitta
above Jardin
#Colombia
13/03/2019
#iPhone
#iPhoneSE
#birds
#AramacaoTours
9 months ago
0
16
1
One of my favourite
#birds
of 2024 - Collared Pratincole, Odiel estuary
#Andalusia
10 months ago
0
12
0
Female fork-tailed woodnymph, Cacao, Nov 24
#Guyane
#birds
#hummingbirds
#birdphotography
10 months ago
0
13
0
Tricolored Heron, Salines de Montjoly, Dec 24
#Guyane
#birds
#birdphotography
10 months ago
0
53
2
Little owl - Tavira 01 Aug 24
#Portugal
#owls
#birds
10 months ago
1
11
0
Dot-winged Antwren female
#campbonaventure
#Guyane
#birds
#birdphotography
10 months ago
0
6
0
Zone-tailed Hawk, Kourou
#Guyane
#birds
#raptors
#birdphotography
10 months ago
0
11
0
Guianan Cock-of-the-rock, Sentier Coq du Roche, 20 Nov 24
#Guyane
#birds
#naturephotography
10 months ago
0
6
0
Silver-beaked Tanager, Roura
#Guyane
#birds
#naturephotography
10 months ago
0
6
0
Swallow-tailed kite, RN Tresor, 20 Nov 24
#Guyane
#birds
#raptors
#birdphotography
10 months ago
0
3
0
Wing-banded Antbird, Montagne Tortue, 23 Nov
#Guyane
#birds
#rainforest
#campbonaventure
10 months ago
0
3
0
Blackish Nightjar, Crique Naï
#Guyane
#birds
#birdphotography
11 months ago
0
5
0
Semi-palmated and White-rumped sandpiper, Salines de Montjoly 02 Dec 24
#Guyane
#birds
#waders
#birdphotography
11 months ago
0
6
0
you reached the end!!
feeds!
log in